Small Hotel

Small Hotel
Directed by	David Macdonald
Produced by	Robert Hall
Written by	Wilfred Eades
Based on	the play Small Hotel by Rex Frost
Starring	Gordon Harker Marie Lohr Janet Munro
Music by	Louis Levy
Cinematography	Norman Warwick
Edited by	Seymour Logie
Production company	A Welwyn Films Ltd. Production
Distributed by	Associated British-Pathé (UK)
Release date	October 1957 (UK)
Running time	58 min
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Small Hotel is a 1957 British comedy film directed by David MacDonald.

Albert, a crafty old waiter in a country hotel known as The Jolly Fiddler, suddenly finds he must work new tricks on management after he is told that he is too old for the job and will be replaced by a hard-nosed young waitress named Miss Mallet.

TV Guide gave the film two out of five stars and called it an "Average comedy"; in the Radio Times, David McGillivray also rated the film two out of five stars, calling it "no great shakes as comedy, but interesting as a vehicle built around a much-loved British star at the end of his career" whereas Britmovie noted, "Twenty years after appearing on stage in this lively Rex Frost play, in his penultimate film Gordon Harker reprises the role of a belligerent hotel waiter having to use all his wit and cunning to save his job. This low-budget film features Harker in typically jovial form, dominating comic proceedings with typical polished expertise, and with a less assured cast this thin comedy wouldn’t be worthwhile. There are early roles for Billie Whitelaw and Janet Munro, and the doughty Irene Handl is cast as the hotel’s spirited cook."